So if you scan your system with a boot cd repeatedly and follow up with a repair install, you may get virut to low for a while, but there is likely a file somewhere on your machine that will inevitably be activated before long, starting the entire infection over again.
Like I said, I
did not perform a reinstall and deleted all the files from the previous system. The current system is a fresh install and I previously formated the current system partition. All I did I kept other files, which were not infected according to kaspersky tool.
Virut adds one or more iFrame tags to any html file it finds to redirect users to an exploit site.
Edit any html file on the infected computer and you'll see something like this at the bottom:
<- iframe src="http://ZieF,pl/rc/" width=1 height=1 style="border:'<- / iframe>',0Dh,0Ah
Virut makes similar changes to other file types such as .PHP, .ASP and .HTM, and is very hard for scanners to detect. So FYI don't bring web documents over in the backup when this infection finally brings you to your knees.
The iFrame problem, mentioned in an earlier post, happened on my wife's computer, while browsing. It was not a web file on the computer and avast blocked access to that page. That computer was not infected and I scanned it just in case [no sign of virut found, like I said].
But feel free to keep trying. You'll just end up learning the hard way like I did
If I get it again, from the files I have on my computer, I will let you know. But I'm not ready to throw all I have as long as I don't have a reason just yet. I would delete infected files, but not those found not to be infected. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe not. I'll see and let u know.
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